DBWI: Religious Right takes the Place of the Religious Left

maybe if they don't focus on economics but on wedge issues like abortion. There is a small but vocal group that opposes a womans right to choose. If they fan the flames and get that group to grow they can form a base of people. Sure they will have to vote against their economic self interest which may be ASB, but if you got some more religious leaders to call abortion murder and it must be outlawed you may get somewhere.
 
. . . unlike our TL's populist-libertarian split. . .
And that's why I don't have a political home!

For example, take the ethical, religious, and personal issue of abortion. Yes, while I appreciate that direct, tangible social services are readily available to low-income pregnant women, much more so than in the past, and while I appreciate the fact that current laws give exceptions for the " . . physical or psychological health of the pregnant woman . . " and that the fines for a doctor performing an illegal abortion are modest in any case . . .

All the same, I'd prefer for abortion to be legal as part of a person's control over their own body, and in keeping with the principle that a person themselves should decide the context and circumstances in which they're able to and choose to help another person.

Men are not able to get pregnant, and we don't seem to realize that this sets up a big double standard!
 
Yes, but the Democrats gave succeeded in keeping abortion technically illegal, but relatively readily available all the same.

And even with these available exceptions, the laws on the books are not in keeping with my views of personal liberty.
 
Yes, but the Democrats gave succeeded in keeping abortion technically illegal, but relatively readily available all the same.

But the recognition that abortion is bad is there. Old liberals (like Muskie, perhaps even Humphrey had he lived past 1978) and evangelicals united on the issue, and voila: abortion's illegal, but like in the Philippines, a woman can get one, guaranteed that you the government can't see you.
 
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But the recognition that abortion is bad is there. Old liberals (like Muskie, perhaps even Humphrey had he lived past 1978) and evangelicals united on the issue, and voila: abortion's illegal, but like in the Philippines, a woman can get one, guaranteed that you the government can't see you.
But it's not illegal across the nation-Roe vs Wade confirmed that states had the rights to make their own laws on abortion.
 
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